YouTube Working on 'Playables' Gaming Service

[Picklefoot]

No, and I didn’t know this before either, but you can delete just your YouTube content:

Delete or hide your YouTube channel - YouTube Help

You can choose to temporarily hide content on your channel or permanently delete your channel. How to hide or delete your YouTube channel

support.google.com

You should go all out and delete your Google account.

 

[sw1tcher]

I miss the old YouTube. At some point they felt the heat from IG and TikTok, and today it’s filled with clickbait nonsense.

YouTube's been filled with clickbait and wannabe influencer junk for close to a decade now.... way before TikTok even got started. Everyone's trying to make a quick buck through YouTube.

 

[collin_]

Will last about 90 days

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Well nobody wants this

 

[dwaltwhit]

What a dumb name

 

[gund1234]

Can’t wait to watch 5 ads every ten minutes while gaming! This is just Stadia 2.0.

if the service is free, then they have to play adds to make money.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Hmmm, wouldn't this effectively give Google its own App Store on iOS? Limited at first, sure, but is this just the start of a bigger plan?

No, more like Netflix, each game is it’s own thing on the App Store.

 

[BuffaloTF]

If "if at first you don't succeed..." was. company lol. Gotta love Google for trying to every damn angle in the book lol

If at first you don't succeed... try and cancel, try and cancel, try and cancel again.

 

[svish]

Interesting to hear about this. Should definitely be a 'Premium' only feature if it is launched.

 

[MuppetGate]

Google: “I know I promised to be good and let you down yet again with stadia, and I know I didn’t keep my promise with almost anything else, but please baby I promise I’ve changed! Please baby please come back! If you really love me you’ll try out my new thing. What do you mean, ‘no’? Well you are nothing without me anyway!”

Google’s Incel Marketing Department.

 

[SB1500]

What's everybody's bet on how long it'll take to appear on here? https://killedbygoogle.com/

 

[Bodhitree]

Sounds like it’s aimed at casual titles, perhaps an Apple Arcade rival?

 

[H00513R]

This will never top Yahoo Games. *chef’s kiss*

 

[bobenhaus]

I miss the old YouTube. At some point they felt the heat from IG and TikTok, and today it’s filled with clickbait nonsense.

Last week I got tired of it all and deleted my entire YouTube account.

What was that great YT Channel you loved and saved it to your favorites?? Oh nevermind

 

[Luna Murasaki]

Wow....

I am struggling to process just how incredibly blatant and stupid this is.

I feel like I am living in a South Park episode.

 

[gund1234]

and Google wants Apple to use messaging technology developed by Google ?

 

[addamas]

So how long until Google close it?

 

[_Spinn_]

This will fail too just like Stadia. So I wonder when they will cancel this?

 

[spicynujac]

No, and I didn’t know this before either, but you can delete just your YouTube content:

Delete or hide your YouTube channel - YouTube Help

You can choose to temporarily hide content on your channel or permanently delete your channel. How to hide or delete your YouTube channel

support.google.com

Kinda, but youtube still tracks you just the same and knows exactly who you are. I have NEVER made a youtube account, but sometimes I get popups where it knows my name because I use gmail.

Essentially we all have youtube accounts, it's just a matter of whether or not we have chosen a screename to use for the service.

 

[amartinez1660]

I miss the old YouTube. At some point they felt the heat from IG and TikTok, and today it’s filled with clickbait nonsense.

Last week I got tired of it all and deleted my entire YouTube account.

I would argue that the click baiting is more on the content creator’s turf… that said, most likely YouTube settings do promote the more clickbait-y ones because they know that’s what the average person will most likely gravitate towards to, making it also the viewer’s fault and completing the triangle of guilt: everyone is on it.

If you dislike it that much, then you might not be “the average person”. I know I’m not either… I cringe and twist at the ads, at the titles, at the TVs on the house listened loud by family members serving garbage after garbage.
Since it’s always about “buy this, eat that, feel bad about this, donate to that because it’s sad and bad, check this useless tv show”. So on and so forth, it has been there forever and it continues on in full force with the internet bait versions of it all.

That said, the gaming part, I’m curious how that works for developing for that… kinda don’t mind sending clickbait games if that’s what people actually want and enjoy.